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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Handle a Stapler
In episode 70 of The Robotics Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle a surprisingly tricky task for robot arms: picking up and operating a standard office stapler. They break down the physics of an angled staple swing, the force control needed to drive through paper, and why a mechanism humans find trivial reveals deep limits in contact-rich manipulation. Drawing on research from Sony's Dobb-E project and MIT's SoftHand, they explain how staple-jamming and misalignment expose the gap between human instinct and robot precision. The episode also touches on why the ability to staple might be a…
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